Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-14

to illustrate their level-headed Qualities
prove their gameness and confirm tbe
endurance claimed for them.
/ Fifteen or twenty years ago breeder.
and owners considered a horse useless 10,
turf purposes until he was four or five
years old, and as natural consequences
they were not even trained until they
reached that age. The trotting interests
of the present day have assumed a very
different aspect. There are valuable
stakes for two, three and four-year-olds
all of which attract the attention of the
province, state or nation by which they
are supported.
The first few years of their existence
were uneventful. The contests were tame
and the time slow. In 1874, however, q
change came upon the scene. The three
year-old FLY Lady Stout crossed the
rubicon OF the trotting arena and placed
2:20 opposite her name.
The four-year-old records have been
reduced very rapidly. Elaine placed the
mark at 2:2414 in 1873. Jay-Eye-See
beat 2:20 in 1880, trotting two heats in
PIG at Chicago. Two years later Elvira
cut it down to 2:1S19. That mark re-
manned unchanged until 1884, when Sal
lie Benton reduced it to 2:173d, and last
season Manzanita placed the peg at 2 :I6.
GENERAL SPORTING MATTERS.
Edward Hanlan writes from Boston
| that he is in the best possible health and
is rowing well. He is probably thirty
seconds better than he was last wear.
Jake Gaudaur is also getting into form.
Mr. st. John, his hacker, thinks that he
is good enough to win the championship
of the world.
The second deposit of 81 900 a side in
the single scull race between Edward
Hanlan and Jake Gaudaur was posted in
New York May 2e. The race is to be
for $1,000 and the championship of
America, and $4,000 is now up. 1t is to
be rowed on Decoration Day. Mr.. st.
John, the hacker of Gaudaur, complained
rather bitterly of Hanlan's letter to the
stakeholder, Hamilton Busby. He has
thus far failed to agree with Hanlan upon
the course and upon the referee. If the
two oarsmen do not come to an under
standing within the next two weeks, Mr..
Busby will select the course and appoint
a referee. Hanlan is in training on Lake
Quinsigamond, Worcester, Moss, and
Gauduar is at Washington.
In making the sail plan for the new
steel sloop that Gen. G. j. Paine intends
for this years defender of the Americas
cup, somewhat larger sail area than for
the Mayfower has been given, the de-
signer believing that by carrying the
ballast lower the extra canvas can be
Oh IL,
fications call for sticks of Oregon pine.
The mast has an extreme length of
so feet, with diameter of 10 feet at the
deck, Is inches at the hounds and 1871
inches at about half the distance up, the
spar being slightly ''barrel shaped"
The boom is 50 feet long, having diam
eter of IA inches in the middle and 1851
inches at the sings. The gaffis so feet long
being the only spar which is not longer
than the corresponding one in the May
flower. The bowsprit is So feet long, and
its greatest diameter is fifteen inches.
The topmast is 48 feet long, and has
diameter of 90 inches at the cap. The
spinnaker boom has not yet been roughed
out, as its length has not yet been de-
cided upon.
These Dutch farmers know a trick or
two, and make no mistake. On April "a
about sixteen thousand people visited
Ridgewood Park, which is located on the
outskirts of the city of Brooklyn. There
are lot of farmers in that neighborhood
who raise garden stuff for the market.
The baseball enthusiasts paid no atten-
ton to the things which were planted,
but walked over them, just as though
thye were not there. Last Sunday the
farmers put up a job, and it worked to
perfection. They set half-dozen traps,
one of which was q sockdolliger. They
dug holes from a foot to three feet deep
and from one to four feet in diameter
These holes were filled with the finest
grade of fertilizing compounds, as the.
farmer keeps apout twenty COWS. A coat |
ing of fresh earth was sprinkled over the |
top of each trap, and in the mammoth |
man-hole-3 by 4-they planted some |
rhubarb. One unsophisticated individ-
ual walked straight into the big trap and
sank up to his waist in the soft substance.
He was a pitiable sight when he scram-
bled up on the hard ground. Nobody
had any use for him, and at last accounts
the poor fellow was hiding behind a
fence, waiting until it was dark enough
to sneak home. There were dozens of
others who were caught, but none SO bad
as this poor fellow, and when he CON-
planned to the policeman the officer had
the nerve to tell him that his breath
smelled little strong
About 700 people at st. Paul, Mimi,
witnessed what proved to be very hard
fight between John p. Glow, the cham
pion heavyweight OF Colorado, and Mort
Fahey, the Minneapolis fighter. Glow
knocked Fahey out in the ninth rounds
Glow started the blood from his oppo-
nent's nose and mouth in the fourth
round, and In the ninth struck him a
stiff right-hander on the jugular vein,
which sent him to the floor Fahey tried
to get up, but failed He was terribly
punished about the face and neck.
Jake Kilrain is going to claim the
championship and the diamond belt if
Sullivan does not agree to meet him in a
contest to finish for $40 900.
A Baltimore exchange says no matter
what excuses pat Sheedy may make,
Sullivan will have to prove to the sport
ing fraternity that he is able to defeat
Jake Kilrain, and the only way to do that
is to cover Kilrain's hackers money.
posted with Richard K. Fox. In speak
ing over the prospects of Kilrain meeting
Sullivan, Frank Stevenson, at Bush's
Hotel, the other night, said that the Crib
Club, of Brooklyn, put up. purse of
g, 800 for Kilrain and Sullivan to box for,
but the champion refused to meet Kill
rain.
Jack Dempsey is again putting on the
war paint, and match between him
md Jack Burke is to be arranged, to
AXE place either at St. Paul or Mime
lpolis. Dempsey outfought Burke in San
francisco, and should have been declared
he winner, and he will do so again.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Montsada Sorak!chi, the Jap, under
ook, at Buffalo, NJ Y, April %, to throw
Mortimer Waters, the champion wrestler
If Erie county, five times within ninety
Failing to do that the Jap was !
o give Waters $500, and that amount
vas TO Ia fOrfoifod if XVofor- 49,. |